Comments on: Three down

By: Taxpayer shafted again at The Standard

Taxpayer shafted again at The Standard — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:55:06 +0000

[...] we were promised significant tax cuts, “North of $50″ per week. We had John Key’s personal guarantee. Key said “New Zealanders will be able to believe our tax cuts, they will be able to trust [...]

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:39:10 +0000

I might not have been paying attention, how has promise 3 been broken?

By: felix

felix — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:38:31 +0000

“routinely”, troll?

Yeah, enough examples to be considered routine but you can’t think of any to mention. If only there were some way of searching for information on the internet…

By: Zorr

Zorr — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:07:14 +0000

squirrel… wasn’t that why people voted National though? Because they didn’t want to support that kind of behaviour?

So we now just have the other side in who are currently doing everything they can to get their political ideology realized. I don’t have an issue with that so much as the duplicitous nature of their election promises…

By: squirrel

squirrel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:55:22 +0000

I dont have one handy but those fold out cards of promises by Helen Clark which were distributed at two elections routinely had broken promises.

By: illuminatedtiger

illuminatedtiger — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0000

I guess we can all see how much John Key’s personal guarantee is worth now.

(No pun intended)

By: vto

vto — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:41:24 +0000

I’ll give you lot one thing and that is the dishonesty displayed by Key and English over the promised tax cuts.

For Key to state that he didn’t foresee the size of the economic downturn and then use that as an excuse to abandon the tax cuts is an OUTRIGHT LIE.

It has seriously weakened his cred. In my own silopsided world anyway..

By: jarbury

jarbury — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:33:06 +0000

Regarding promise number 2, I’m yet to see an increase in public transport funding. In fact the Government Policy Statement rips $420 million away from things other than state highways, which includes public transport losing money.